BEGINNING: I am on the road to losing weight. I am doing this for my well-being, taking it slowly. I want the pounds to melt steadily in a healthy manner. So far I have been in my new lifestyle (eating better, exercising more, etc.) Lost 7 lbs in my first month. Still some ways to go.

UPDATE: May 7th, 2018: I got on a plateau for several weeks. No matter that I was still counting calories and exercising. So I did an overhaul of my diet approach. This time around I stopped eating carbs and stepped up my exercise routine. It worked! and not only that. My stomach is shrinking faster as the swollenness caused by gluten it's started to disappear.

UPDATE: October 20th: I am down to 169 lbs!

UPDATE: September 22nd. Autumn Equinox: I am down to 172 lbs.

UPDATE: August 23rd. By now I have lost 24 lbs.

2019 UPDATE: MAY 1st. I have lost 50 lbs. by now. I still have 5 more to go. Got stuck for a while again. I had gone back to eating a few gluten foods for a while but that just made me feel bloated and gave me stomach pains.
I am back to gluten-free. I added walking again to my exercise routine. I am also in the Self magazine Spring exercise challenge at the moment.